Dear Visitor,
Brief news from us:
Portuguese PhonePill? If you do business with Portugal or Brazil; yes, it now exists. Give Diego a call on 93 390 27 20 if you want to know more, or send him an email.
We need a little help from our PhonePill customers!
If you like PhonePill, if you are a bit of an exhibitionist, expressive and extravert, could you send us a brief video -even using your mobile; duration of a minute or less- explaining your opinions and experience with PhonePill? If video is your hobby, go ahead and be more sophisticated than a mobile, if you want!
Basically, give your first name, a brief description of your job, where English comes into your job and your thoughts on PhonePill.
NetPill: If you don't know what NetPill is, and you want to have access to the open, Rich Content section, send me an email. There is no cost.
Next events:
Barcelona: visit to the Aga Khan's Islamic Art Collection at CaixaForum.
Madrid: visit to the Andrea Palladio, the architect at CaixaForum.
Tips
Tips for online presentations
Users of online and telephone conferences face, with increasing frequency, the challenge of presenting without being able to visually connect with their audience. Training, virtual meetings, sales, project team meetings, webinars; more and more meetings are done via the Web.
For more and more people, the normal presentation venue is an online meeting without video, using PowerPoint and/or screen sharing. The growing push of this change highlights the difficult challenges that online meetings represent : no body language to see, you don’t know when other participants are... click here to read more »
Humour
Masculine or feminine? - an old controversy, revitalised.
A language teacher was explaining to her class that Spanish nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine. Things like "chalk" or "pencil", she described, would have a gender association. For example - "house" is feminine, "la casa".
In English, of course, common nouns are of neutral gender.
Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, "What gender is a computer ?" The teacher responded...
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In case you didn't need a laugh a moment
ago, here is a second chance for you. This time
you will hear how 'smart' mobile phones leave some people perplexed and frustrated. It's the
recent Jack Dee video again!
Take a look here »
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I LOVE YOU TOO honey!...
Be very careful about leaving your mobile phone unattended! You could get a surprise!
 Watch the video here »
Any comments? Just drop me an email.
Just as a reminder, we specialise in making you look good, feel good and sound good when
you speak English in a presentation, in a meeting or on the telephone. Give us a call or
drop us an email.
I would very much appreciate your
feedback about this Newsletter and any questions or suggestions that you have. Also, please
let me know if you like the exercises that I started to include in the last two or three
Newsletters. Do feel free to write in your own language, or in English if you prefer.
Kind regards,
Albert |
